Here is a new Kickstarter Campaign for Carmageddon: Reincarnation, an upcoming return to this game of road rage planned by Stainless Games. The project is looking to raise $400,000 and has picked up over $72,000 already. Here's word on what they are scheming:

Carmageddon: Reincarnation is a re-boot of everything that made the original games such a blast to play. The new game will be inspired by the classic environments, cars, drivers and power-ups from the original, but dragged screaming and kicking into the current state of the rendered art. And of course, there will be a bunch of brand new STUFF too, including true rag-doll pedestrians and physics-based power-ups that let you mess with their limbs whilst wiping away the tears - of laughter!

Multiplayer was the hidden-treasure of Carmageddon back in the dark days of LAN parties, but will now be able to be enjoyed by almost all of our players, thanks to the entire planet going online since then. The single player game will be brilliant too, thanks to demented opponents with demented A.I. brains made from demented code written by demented programmers.

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Awesome. I hope they don't give a fuck about the negative wrap this will inevitably get and cave.

It's an indie game so they don't have to worry about publishers or the ESRB. They can do whatever they want (as long as it doesn't violate Steam's TOS).

That said, $400k seems a bit light for both a single-player and multiplayer game. Multiplayer alone is a costly endeavor, what with all the networking and testing involved. If Stainless wants to generate more revenue, they really should put the Carmageddon games up on GOG and any other digital distributors that are willing to sell it.

From the sounds of their pitch, it sounds like they're confident in their ability to finish the project regardless of whether the Kickstarter is funded, they just decided they would do a Kickstarter as a glorified pre-order in order to get better interaction from the fan community.